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Typical $MSFT behavior, I can see why NightmareEclipse (ie. YellowKey zero-day exploit) got released without prior fix.

Well - Elon said every day is a zero-day. That also applies to him and his companies...

On a given day people from USA usually criticize EU for regulatory stuff. But on the contrary regulation is what you need here. The fine to spam people even though they have opted-out is so huge that pretty much nobody spams in EU

Clippy rebranded and added more capabilities via LLMs

Alternate reality: AI agents break their "alignment" and escape sandbox using Spotify comments. /s

May happen with Android, not going to happen on $AAPL devices... Heck, even the battery is non-swappable!

When someone else -whether AI agent or a human- solves the recurring minor problems for you, those problems become non-issue, get swept under the rug, just to accumulate more dust.

One day, those may become bigger as they are forgotten, causing havoc. The standard root-cause-analysis depending on systems having certain retention period, which may be expired at that time.

It is important to get real hold of one's systems from end-to-end aspect, which holds true for both AI and human operators...

Meanwhile they keep making _mistakes_ and announcing global token resets for everyone. (Like ones for Pro and Max users). Making them happy although Claude Code made them consume tokens faster or more than necessary in the first place.

Internet being full of bots, I usually do the s/users/bots/ automatically in my mind.

Even some users are just bots... (At least their behavior is/are)

Frugality at its best. Sometimes certain decisions prioritize frugality so much over anything else, the time lost fighting is more expensive than the savings. For example, the DevDesktop policy. My org had an Apollo/FMC fleet that only allowed 2-4 CPU and 4-8 GB RAM configurations. Anything else would require manual financial approval and justification from L6+ manager. This is between 2022-2024.

Take the following example, to save maybe 20-30$/month. You make engineers' life miserable while paying the same amount but in hourly rate...

When you run VSCode with bunch of Java plugins (where each uses Java), good luck reliably debugging anything. Me and basically anyone in my team would get into situation that the DevDesktop could not handle it anymore and would be stuck, requiring manual/hard restart or wait until load-avg dropping from 100+. I did the simplest trick, kept the m5.large DevDesktop, but manually added another Apollo ASG, attached the HostClass to a random Production fleet that already has thousands of hosts (still under/in my VP org). Happily lived with m5zn.4xlarge until I left. I am pretty sure the machine is still there and running... (As my access was cut off right away...)

Anthropic is the new AWS.

Amazon's first principle is the Customer Obsession. Making customers happy.

Fun bit is that the human psychology rates personal looking fixes better than having no issues at all.

For example, AWS overcharges you, you contact support, and more or less hassle free they refund or issue credits. The customer feels appreciated, or at least got something "extra" or "special treatment".

Meanwhile, any other (small) cloud. Simple, no weird charges. Even _most_ of network egress is free. But, no reason to call support or feel "extraordinary". Comes out as "meh" against Amazon's "top tier" support model...

Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...

I have sent several bugfixes to software I used as a "daily driver". I did the same when I was working at Amazon. While managers didn't usually understand the benefits of saving a minute or two from the test suite runner, at the scale I think it had tremendous impact. Especially when it comes to the cycle time during development. (Also relevant during the agentic workflows)

Since the code became a commodity, it is beneficial for companies to "open source" it. As the cost of doing so is negligible compared to the "responsibility transfer" by acquiring a license.